[Spacewalk-list] Problem with channel

[Stephen Herr]

On 11/20/2014 05:07 AM, Nicolas Michel wrote:
> OK. I manage to find a fix, so I share it ;)
>
> The problem was the cache of the channel. It was in status "in
> progress" when checking it by the web interface. Then I checked in
> /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log and saw a posgresql out of
> memory error (log extract is below). So I figured out a
> misconfiguration from me of postgres and changed it there :
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
>
> After that, I restarted spacewalk-service and got another error about
> an out of memory error, but this time in the JVM. I searched the web,
> and call a collegue which is a java expert. we fix it by editing
> /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log and changed these values:
>
> # Initial Java Heap Size (in MB)
> wrapper.java.initmemory=2048
>
> # Maximum Java Heap Size (in MB)
> wrapper.java.maxmemory=2048

FYI this should be fixed and no longer be necessary in Spacewalk 2.3:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166321

-Stephen